It has come to that time of year where treats are on show! So I have set myself the challenge to reconnect with my Nana’s baking lessons from when I was a child and cook up some treats this time with gluten free and dairy free twists. Here’s my adaption for a Gingerbread recipe I … Continue reading A little baking… Gingerbread
Author: Narelle Lemon
Narelle is an Associate Professor at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia where she lecturers in Teacher Education. Her research agenda is engagement and participation with interests that include student voice, professional use of social networking, museum education,creativity, and Arts Education. Narelle tweets @Rellypops and blogs at www.chatwithrellypops.wordpress.com.
Museums and social media – sharing pedagogies of practice
In the week that has just gone I have had the pleasure to attend to Museums and the Web Asia conference held in Melbourne. I have been inspired by the ideas, perspectives and openness of presenters both local and national, and reminded of why I find working with the GLAM sector so enjoyable. I was delighted … Continue reading Museums and social media – sharing pedagogies of practice
Social media, young people and museum: #Meetday2015
Today at the #Meetday2015 WHERE EDUCATION, EVALUATION AND TECHNOLOGY MEET as part of Museum Australia's 2015 Conference I presented my thinking on social media, young people and museum. Click here for my slides. My outline was: Museums are unique sites of learning, as are social media platforms. Both spaces promote co-creation of meaning making. For young … Continue reading Social media, young people and museum: #Meetday2015
#MuseumEdOz is launched
Over the past few months I’ve been working with the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney as a Visiting Research Fellow. We have been exploring how we can engage education audiences with learning and social media (you can read more here and here on initial thinking). It has been such an exciting adventure … Continue reading #MuseumEdOz is launched
Five ways to make a difference
This is an ace post about thinking bigger picture with your research and collaborations. Be inspired and be inspiring!
Impacts, by Jonathan O’Donnell on Flickr
We aren’t here just to generate papers, people.
We’re here to make a difference, to improve things.
Heaven knows, there are enough issues out there that need our help!
If your research sits within the academy, being cited by other researchers, then you might get a promotion. But you probably won’t make a difference.
Here are five ways you can get out there and help put your research into action.
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Would a dedicated hashtag to museum learning in Australia work?
I’ve been having great discussions with MAAS educators and the communications crew about audience engagement with social media. Particularly from the education stance and illuminating the unique learning that occurs. We have been thinking about how to engage teachers, students, museum educators, and learners as a whole. How could we do this? One hashtag that … Continue reading Would a dedicated hashtag to museum learning in Australia work?
A spontaneous observation of energized museum learning
I’ve just begun a new partnership with the Museum of Applies Arts and Sciences (MAAS) as their inaugural Visiting Research Fellow. This is an exciting new adventure for both the museum and myself. Most importantly for me this is a significant new opportunity to be able to explore my research in museum education. My fellowship … Continue reading A spontaneous observation of energized museum learning
Teacher education and partnerships with galleries: What do pre-service teachers think?
Partnerships with cultural organisations such as galleries and museums are under utilised by teacher education programs in Australia (Abeles, 2004; Bybee, 2001; Falk, 2001; Lemon& Garvis, 2014; Nichols, 2014; Wilson, 2004). Cultural organisations are community assets that offer a range of rich and diverse learning resources and programs for learners encompassing all levels of education (Eames & Coll, … Continue reading Teacher education and partnerships with galleries: What do pre-service teachers think?
Adolescents, their relationship with teachers and coping skills to adjust to teacher classroom management strategies.
The classroom, as a social setting for learning, provides a dynamic, yet bounded, set of conditions that engage and affect the learning process. These conditions serve either to support or constrain development of learners (Grossman, Smagorinsky & Valencia, 1999; Martin 2004). From this sociocultural perspective learning is viewed as an active process in which knowledge … Continue reading Adolescents, their relationship with teachers and coping skills to adjust to teacher classroom management strategies.
The 9 commandments of Tweets that add no value
A fellow passionate social media user for professional connections pinged me a great blog post that made me think about the value of tweets and how we critically read them. Jan (@Janpcim) and I have regularly talked about the value of social media for us as educators. We are both advocates of this way of working and … Continue reading The 9 commandments of Tweets that add no value
Chat with Rellypops 